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This Meeting Calendar also includes information on meetings of PIUG partners (AALL, AIIP and LES), related organizations (SLA) and major national and international IP organizations with extensive coverage of patent law development (AIPLA, AIPPI, FICPI, etc.)
Information on past 2012 meetings has been moved to the Previous Patent Information Meetings, Conferences, and Seminars 2012 wiki page. Users should update that page with links to conference proceedings or other information that will help users for future reference.
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Date | Location | Upcoming Meeting/Conference/Seminar |
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| 6-8 February 2013 | München, Germany | PCT Union - Meeting of International Authorities under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) : 20th Session (PCT/MIA/20) |
| 26 February 2013 | Cambridge, MA | PIUG 2013 Biotechnology Meeting "Meeting Challenges in Biotechnology Patent Searching", hosted by Amgen Inc. |
10-13 March 2013 | Seville, Spain | IPI-ConfEx 2013 (10th Annual International Patent Information Conference & Exposition) |
18-19 March 2013 | The Hague, Netherlands | |
3-7 April 2013 | Denver, CO | AIIP 27th Annual Conference (Association of Independent Information Professionals) |
| 7-11 April, 2013 | New Orleans, LA | 245th ACS National Meeting & Exposition (American Chemical Society) CINF Symposium: Public Databases Serving the Chemistry Community; CHAL Symposia |
15-16 April 2013 | Nice, France | II-SDV 2013 (The International Information Conference on Search, Data Mining and Visualization) (Infonortics & Dr. Haxel Congress & Event Management) Presentation files are available from the 2013 Program. |
| 18-19 April 2013 | Vienna, Austria | East meets West 2013: Forum on Asian patent information (EPO) |
27 April - 2 May 2013 | Alexandria, VA | Hilton Alexandria Mark Center |
| 1-3 May 2013 | Seattle, WA | AIPLA 2013 Spring Meeting (American Intellectual Property Law Association) |
| 14-16 May 2013 | Seattle, WA | LES 2013 Spring Meeting (Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A. and Canada), Inc) |
| 5-7 June 2013 | Ilmenau, Germany | PATINFO 2013 Meeting (35. Kolloquium der Technischen Universität Ilmenau über Patentinformation) "New Ways in Patent and Trademark Information" ("Neue Wege der Patent- und Markeninformation“). Please note that the conference language is German. |
| 9-11 June 2013 | San Diego, CA | SLA 2013 Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO (Special Libraries Association) |
| 17-18 June 2013 | The Hague, The Netherlands | Classifying with the Co-operative Patent Classification is a two-day seminar to be held at the EPO in The Hague. This public conference will focus on the developments of the Cooperative Patent Classification and aims at familiarizing participants with classification system. The underlying concept and the integration of ECLA and ICO codes into one single structure will be explained. A separate workshop for participants from CPCNO countries (ex- ECNO countries) will provide hands-on exercises in parallel working groups in selected technical fields. |
| 13-16 July 2013 | Seattle, WA | 2013 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference (106th) (American Association of Law Libraries) |
| 5-11 September 2013 | Finland, Helsinki | AIPPI Forum & Executive Committee Meeting (Int. Assoc. for the Protection of Intellectual Property). See Q233 Grace period for patents |
8-12 September 2013 | Indianapolis, IN | 246th ACS National Meeting (American Chemical Society) |
| 22-25 September 2013 | Philadelphia, PA | LES 2013 Annual Meeting (Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A. and Canada), Inc) |
| Fall 2013 | Saint-Raphaël, France | IPWARE-SUMMIT 2013 (The Third International Conference & Exhibition on Software for Information Processing) Includes an intellectual property track: Patent Search and Processing, Patent analysis, composition and translation; Intellectual property valuation, etc. |
| 30 September - 2 October 2013 | New Brunswick, NJ | PIUG 2013 Northeast Conference. This annual conference will be held again at the Heidrich Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. |
| 2-5 October 2013 | Sorrento, Italy | 14th FICPI Forum (Int. Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys) |
13-16 October 2013 | Vienna, Austria | ICIC 2013 (International Conference on Trends for Scientific Information Professionals) (Dr. Haxel Congress & Event Management). Workshop: Overview of Asian IP: patent sources and searching on 13 October 2013. |
22-24 October 2013 | Bologna, Italy | EPO Patent Information Conference 2013 (Organized in co-operation with the Italian Patent and Trademark Office) |
| 24-26 October 2013 | Washington, DC | AIPLA 2013 Annual Meeting (American Intellectual Property Law Association) |
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| 24-26 February 2014 | Cambridge MA | PIUG 2014 Biotechnology Conference at Genzyme Corp. The plenary session is on Tuesday, February 25 and workshops are on Monday and Wednesday, February 24 and 26. |
| 2-5 March 2014 | Berlin, Germany | IPI-ConfEx 2014 (International Patent Information Conference & Exposition) |
16-20 March 2014 | Dallas, TX | 247th ACS National Meeting (American Chemical Society) |
| 3-4 April 2014 | The Hague, Netherlands | Search Matters 2014 (EPO conference for professional patent searchers) |
2-6 April 2014 | Baltimore, MD | AIIP 28th Annual Conference (Association of Independent Information Professionals) |
| 26 April - 1 May 2014 | Garden Grove, CA | PIUG 2014 Annual Conference . This annual conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Orange County in Garden Grove, CA, USA, just 1.4 miles from Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, CA. |
14-15 April 2014 | Nice, France | II-SDV 2014 (The International Information Conference on Search, Data Mining and Visualization) (Infonortics & Dr. Haxel Congress & Event Management) |
| 15-17 May 2014 | Philadelphia, PA | AIPLA 2014 Spring Meeting (American Intellectual Property Law Association) |
| 4-6 June 2014 | Ilmenau, Germany | PATINFO 2014 Meeting (36. Kolloquium der Technischen Universität Ilmenau über Patentinformation) "IP Management 2020". Please note that the conference language is German. |
| 8-10 June 2014 | Vancouver, B.C., Canada | SLA 2014 Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO (Special Libraries Association) |
| 12-15 July 2014 | San Antonio, TX | 2014 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference (107th) (American Association of Law Libraries) |
10-14 August 2014 | San Francisco, CA | 248th ACS National Meeting (American Chemical Society) |
| 14-18 September 2014 | Toronto, Canada | 44th World Intellectual Property Congress (AIPPI - Int. Assoc. for the Protection of Intellectual Property) |
| 29 September - 1 October 2014 | New Brunswick, NJ | PIUG 2014 Northeast Conference. This annual conference will be held again at the Heidrich Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. |
| 5-8 October 2014 | San Francisco, CA | LES 2014 Annual Meeting (Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A. and Canada), Inc) |
| 12-15 October 2014 | Heidelberg, Germany | ICIC 2014 (International Conference on Trends for Scientific Information Professionals) (Dr. Haxel Congress & Event Management). |
| 23-25 October 2014 | Washington, DC | AIPLA 2014 Annual Meeting (American Intellectual Property Law Association) |